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Making money on a small farm
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The big land transfer & social media
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CB Sowder replied to John Walter's discussion 'Making money on a small farm'

GOATS, chickens, apples, strawberries, rent it to the next guy, sometimes we would kill for 60 acres in one place, agree with Keith Baker.....what ever it takes.

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Keith Baker replied to John Walter's discussion 'Making money on a small farm'

He has a real blessing to take over the family farm. Hold onto it and make it work. Make it a hobby while you work full time, diversify what you grow, rent out the land if you can't keep up. Make it work!!!

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Making money on a small farm

A young farmer in Kentucky who has a chance to take over a 60-acre farm from his dad gets a range of advice over on an Agriculture.com discussion thread. Basically, the guy is wondering if it's worth his time to try to make that size of farm profi...

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dale a. Brandt replied to John Walter's discussion 'The big land transfer & social media'

i will agree with the social media to an extent. In the past i have written for farm week and agrinews here in illinois. i have had suppliers "looking" for me. on occasion i was given machinery to demonstrate and seed to try.... for a hopeful posi...

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Nick replied to John Walter's discussion 'The big land transfer & social media'

We know our end users....and our sales people, explain the benefit twitter or any other medium would have for me....

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Cynthia DuVal replied to John Walter's discussion 'The big land transfer & social media'

John, Please tell us more. What did Kohl have to say about how social media presence helps young ag entrepreneurs with marketing, management and input sourcing? How does he know consumers want to hear from producers? What kinds of things do the...

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scott replied to John Walter's discussion 'The big land transfer & social media'

i can believe the 70%, i see that in my area as well. a lot of 45+ year old farmers who are continually acquiring more land and expanding. however, most do not have anyone to take over the operations. i wonder who will have the resources and money...

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Other ag enterprises

A good majority of farmers have a second ag-related enterprise, and there’s little limit on the imagination people bring to these enterprises, according to a recent Agriculture Online poll. Only 21% of the nearly 300 farmers taking the survey said they don’t have another enterprise besides the farm.

The most popular selections were seed production and sales (15%) and custom farming (12%). Other enterprises on the list included trucking, m… Continue

Posted on November 4, 2009 at 2:56pm — 4 Comments

Your harvest photos: "Let's roll!"

I just put together a "slideshow" on Agriculture.com of a selection of harvest photos from our social network here. I borrowed the "let's roll" theme from Shane Newbrough's combine add-on. Seems appropriate this year, given all the challenges a lot of you have faced.

I hope this coverage helps our Web site visitors, and the general public, better understand what's happening out on the land this fall.

Thanks to ever… Continue

Posted on October 26, 2009 at 11:39am — 3 Comments

Mobile Web site launched

Hi, people: We're launching a new mobile Web site today over on Agriculture.com, which has the latest futures quotes, cash prices, commentary and other commodity info. The site includes our top story of the day, weather radar and forecasts, and more.

One section we're particularly excited about is the commodity "heat maps."

If you have a browser on your phone, you can navigate to the site at: http://www.agriculture.com/mobile

You… Continue

Posted on August 26, 2009 at 11:00am —

Well-managed beginning farms can thrive in uncertain times

I just posted a story on Agriculture Online, Well-managed beginning farms can thrive in uncertain times, by Dan Looker, who attended a conference for young and beginning farmers in Omaha this week.

The piece covers a presentation by Dave Kohl, an ag finance expert who's also had lots of practical experience, including a deal in which he invested in and helped turn around… Continue

Posted on August 21, 2009 at 2:30pm — 11 Comments

New Farmers for the Future slideshow

We just put together a selection of member-submitted photos, called Summer Scenes. I hope it gives you a sense of what's happening around the country this summer. Thanks to everyone who uploaded photos and for those who corresponded with me as we put this piece together. Wish we could have used a hundred more from our great collection here. The more than… Continue

Posted on July 20, 2009 at 3:43pm — 1 Comment

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At 4:58pm on November 19, 2009, Machinery Pete said…: Thanks John...for all you do to make the show what it is...."you da man!"

Geez, was down to the recording studio in Des Moines today to do some audio voiceovers for upcoming episodes of the "Machinery Show". The crew had me in front of a green screen. 1st time ever done that before. Maybe they can make clouds fly over my head like they do with Dave on the opening?? Fun stuff.

Greg
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At 12:34pm on September 3, 2009, Luke Hicks said…: Thanks I appreciate it. I got on here to hopefully spread the word about california agriculture mainly the west side of the san jauquin valley. I'm not sure if anybody knows the situation there but it is not good. Congress has basically robbed of us our water to save a 2" minow called the smelt. My family has farmed there since the early 1970's and this is the hardest year i think we have had. I am a 22 yr old attending CSU fresno majoring in crop prod management. I have loved farming all my life and am very passionate about it. I have become even more passionate about it this year with everything that has gone on. Well sorry to ramble on, but I am glad to be hear and look foward to taking with everyone.

At 9:33am on August 24, 2009, Erin Capps said…: Hi John,
I live and work out of a home office in Ankeny, however, my family's farm is in SE Iowa, near Hedrick. Are you familiar with the area? We should get together and do coffee sometime!

At 7:05am on July 28, 2009, scott thornton said…: Thanks John,
I don't know how well a souther boy will fit in with all these mid-westerners. What little we have to harvest should be ready about early to mid September. We planted late because the wet spring, then didn't get any rain from mid May to July.

At 3:50am on July 26, 2009, hamed zakikhani said…: thanks john

At 11:19pm on July 7, 2009, Travis Michael Carpenter said…: Thanks John
I look forward to hearing from you

At 12:06pm on June 5, 2009, Kyle Witzke said…: Thanks, all crops around here are growing good if we get rain this weekend like were suppose to it will really grow, the land that got worked this year is alot better than the no-till.

At 1:01pm on May 14, 2009, Scott said…: I sent you a email rather than use the reply feature hope it works this time.

At 6:43am on May 14, 2009, Scott said…: John, I replied to your email if you didn't get it let me know.

At 9:08pm on May 8, 2009, Adam said…: I'd say corn is pretty much in here in my area. We finished up today.

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